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schrodingerscat
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Date: December 29, 2019 05:08PM
Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> You are taking gods that people really believed
> in, that in some cases have extensive literary or
> mythological systems surrounding them, and then
> expropriating select ideas to fit your own
> cosmology. That is most assuredly a "gloss" over
> the actual people and their recorded beliefs.
>
> As I have said before, you might as well call your
> God "fruit loops" because that usage would bear
> about as much fidelity to the original as do your
> references to actual religions and actual
> believers.
>
> Words have definitions. If you choose to steal
> the words and deny the meanings, you are engaging
> in meaningless discourse.
I use the word god as Spinozza/Einstein/Sagan/Hawking/Kaku defined it, in the non-personal sense of the word, to mean the laws that govern nature, aka, Logos, in the sense that the ancient Greeks defined it, to mean,
"the active reason pervading and animating the Universe. It was conceived as material and is usually identified with God or Nature. The Stoics also referred to the seminal logos ("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the Universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. Humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos#Stoics"In the begining was the Logos. The Logos was with God and the Logos was God." John 1:1 in the original Greek.
Logos is translated as "Tao" in Chinese versions of the Bible.
That works as a synonym too.